TAJIKISTAN: RUSSIAN TROOPS CLASH WITH REBELS

Russian/Nat In the central Asian republic of Tajikistan, Russian troops have been fighting rebels opposed to the hard-line Communist government supported by Moscow. The conflict has claimed the lives of troops who’ve been killed on the mountain border with Afghanistan where the rebels have their bases. A ceasefire agreement is already in ruins and the Russian Foreign Ministry says that talks to prolong the agreement have collapsed. For these Russian soldiers charged with keeping the peace on t